Feedback Needed / OOTP 11 Features

[thbroman]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

I like most of these quite a bit. One in particular...minor league rehab. That was one thing I told my best friend a few months ago that I would love to see. It would definitely beat a player coming off the DL and stepping back on the field without missing a beat from how he played before his turn on the DL.

Excellent suggestion, although the need for it obviously it should be gauged to the severity of the injury.

[Malleus Dei]

I agree with Scott. Non-baseball-related information about a player is just clutter.

[UWHabs]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

I agree with Scott. Non-baseball-related information about a player is just clutter.

Having Father/Son or brothers listed would be about the most that I'd want.

[silvam14]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

I agree with Scott. Non-baseball-related information about a player is just clutter.

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[silvam14]

I know someone here posted the baseball card idea and I would love to second that, if done properly.

The cards should be customizable to include any style on the front (could be a trasparent layer on top of the photo, and also the stats/ratings displayed on the back should be customizable as well

[BMW]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

I agree with Scott. Non-baseball-related information about a player is just clutter.

Where you aware?
Baseball Digest and other guides back in the 50s and 60s would regularly publish the marital status of a player. On top of that, the August 1953 issue of Baseball Digest published Baseball's 40 Most Eligible Bachelors?

Just passing on some interesting history.

[StyxNCa]

Originally Posted by Killing Time

Well over five percent of men suffer from colorblindness in one form or another.

I know I can't see black on a white background.

[endgame]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

I know I can't see black on a white background.

Good thing what you look at most is white lines on a black background then, eh?

[Cryomaniac]

Originally Posted by UWHabs

Having Father/Son or brothers listed would be about the most that I'd want.

Yeah, it would be cool if it listed other baseball players in the family*.

*Yes, the gender neutrality of that statement is intentional

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by silvam14

I know someone here posted the baseball card idea and I would love to second that, if done properly.

Thirded or whatever. The game needs baseball cards for the players. It would not be hard to do and would add a lot to the game.

Plus you could add it on the back cover: "Now with individual player, coach and manager baseball cards!"

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

I know I can't see black on a white background.

If you lay off that Texas moonshine and drink factory whiskey instead that problem may go away.

[Cryomaniac]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

If you lay off that Texas moonshine and drink factory whiskey instead that problem may go away.

Or it may get worse, you never know

[timmermac]

Originally Posted by Sabermetric Baseball

I'd like to see the following features added....

• Rather than having to toggle a pitcher's role back and forth to see their ratings in a given role, have their Starting Pitcher ratings and Relief Pitcher ratings both viewable on their player pages and HTML reports.
• Add Potential Ratings for fielding. Also, change the fielding rating system in the Player Editor to more closely resemble hitting (i.e. if I want to add a position rating for shortstop, I simply type in a number next to shortstop and he gets a rating).
• Players are currently added to the Amateur Draft one year before their real life MLB debut. At league creation, allow the option to set this differently. If I'm starting a league in 1995 and set the Amateur Draft to "Three Years before Real Life Debut", then all 1996 and 1997 debutees will be added to their minor league teams when the league is created and the first Amateur Draft will be of 1998 debutees.
• A new feature in OOTP 10 was that all players on the 40-man roster are automatically added to the active roster in Spring Training. This is extremely cumbersome for online league commissioners when teams miss an export. Add a league setting that allows commissioners to disable this feature.
• Teams should be able to sign players to minor league contracts with a financial value. In other words, if a stud teenage prospect is a free agent, I should be able to sign him to a multi-million dollar deal without needing to add him to the 40-man roster.
• OOTP 10 featured the ability to "Generate Ratings" in the Player Editor for hitting and pitching ratings. Extend this functionality to generate Speed and Defense ratings. You could perhaps use SB's and CS's per 550 AB for the speed ratings, and the same calculations used to determine Defense ratings at player creation.
• Add a Breaking News article for when a top prospect is called up. Also add "Major League Debut" as an item in the player's history.
• Add the ability to search the Lahman database for players playing within a date range, and then add them as free agents to your league file if they are not in the league already. If I'm in the 2000 season and Mike Mussina somehow got deleted from my league, then I ran a search for all players from 1999-2001 then Mussina would be amongst the players added to the free agent pool.

Additionally, I'd like to see the following features, though I'm listing them here separately since they might already exist.....

• Integrate a player's popularity with their likelihood of being selected to the All-Star team and winning awards.
• Have attendance increase for home games where a player is close to reaching a milestone.
• Add a Breaking News article for when a player sets a new single-season record for a major stat category. Also, add this item as an event in their Player History.

I'd like to be able to do that in solo leagues as well. I'd also like to not use up a player's option when I send 'em back to the minors before opening day's games.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by timmermac

I'd like to be able to do that in solo leagues as well. I'd also like to not use up a player's option when I send 'em back to the minors before opening day's games.

Uh, but that's exactly how it works in the real world. If the player is on the 40-man roster but not on the 25-man active roster at the start of the regular season, then he's on optional assignment, and if he's on optional assignment that means he's using an option. (The only way it isn't an option in MLB is if the player spends less than 20 days in the minors during the entire regular season, in which case an option isn't charged. In OOTP, even one day in the minors results in an option being charged.)

The change in OOTP was made to close the loophole its previous implementation had created.

[Muzamba]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

I know I can't see black on a white background.

That's my problem, too. In fact, I even created a light-on-dark skin for an early version of OOTP just so I could see it more easily. Of course now, the skinning process is so complicated that I've had to just deal with the areas where there is black text on a white background. Luckily, most of the important screens (like the player lists) feature the white-on-black scheme. Still, I wish we could get a skin that ONLY used light text on dark backgrounds... hint-hint

[mm7607]

This game needs less off field nonsense and more baseball. A better record book or almanac. The almanac the game uses now is just a skim of the history and takes a ton of time to update. The game needs a better way to print stats and scores other then the pain it uses now. Sortable stats for both leagues not just all combined. Ability to customize the accomplishments. How about MASS select. Ability to assign a player to a team just with right clicking them. A better schedule editor. Right now I haven't played the game in over a week since the last time I decided to expand. After 3 days of rebuilding the schedule, its still not finished and I'm tired of screwing with it.

[JoseRijo]

There should be no hard maximum salary you can dump in trade. IRL Teams constantly subsidize salary dumps with cash, but in OOTP the AI says the player is still vastly overpaid. The AI needs to reduce its implied cost for that player by 2 options
1. cash included in the trade
and
2. overpayed players of their own included in the trade

[JoseRijo]

Often even on "hard" trades can be had by throwing in more and more players that the AI is going to have to cut or waive anyway.

I propose the AI has a sort of temporary roster memory which in evaluating the trade actually simulates the trade's aftermath, and any waived or released players will be counted as a negative in terms of salary taken on, but as a zero (as in no positive effect) in terms of talent added to a trade.

This would make it still possible to trade these extra fodder players, but the AI will consider the money lost in cutting them as a negative, but it may still think the trade is fair. And to re-iterate there is no way it should consider any potentially waived players as positive value for a trade.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by mm7607

A better schedule editor... After 3 days of rebuilding the schedule, its still not finished and I'm tired of screwing with it.

An easier way is to post your schedule request in the Schedules subforum in the OOTP 9 Mods forum. (OOTP 9 schedule files can be used without issue in OOTP 10.) Board member gmo should be able to put together a schedule file to suit your needs; he's a wizard at doing custom schedule requests.

[mm7607]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

An easier way is to post your schedule request in the Schedules subforum in the OOTP 9 Mods forum. (OOTP 9 schedule files can be used without issue in OOTP 10.) Board member gmo should be able to put together a schedule file to suit your needs; he's a wizard at doing custom schedule requests.

I don't agree. It should be a part of the game.